New
Jersey’s National Guard Creates State’s
First Voting Campaign to Encourage Military
Personnel and Families and Others to Vote.Actor
Joe Piscopo Joins NJ Attorney General to
Promote New Jersey’s “BE POWERFUL,
BE HEARD” Voting Initiative

Members
of New Jersey’s National Guard,
led by Brigadier General and Deputy Adjutant
General Maria Falco-Dodson, will be joined
by family, friends, supporters; New Jersey
Attorney General Peter C. Harvey and actor
Joe Piscopo to tape a Public Service Announcement
for New Jersey’s “BE POWERFUL,
BE HEARD” voting initiative. Prior
to the taping, Harvey will host a brief
program to thank the New Jersey National
Guard for participating in this first
ever effort to encourage military personnel
and other New Jerseyans to register and
to vote in the upcoming gubernatorial
election and other local and statewide
elections.

The
purpose of the taping is for military
personnel to encourage other military
personnel around the world to register
and vote. The PSA and the event itself
will be archived and a copy will be forwarded
to all military personnel in Iraq and
throughout the world through the Defense
Department via the Pentagon Channel and
the Air Force News Service as well as
local networks and on the web in New Jersey.
The program and taping are open to the
press.

This
program is part of the Be Powerful Be
Heard campaign of the New Jersey Attorney
General's Office, designed to implement
HAVA,
to raise voter awareness throughout the
state and encourage citizens to vote and
participate in the electoral process.